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Family Erebidae

stone-winged owlet - Chytolita petrealis Unk Moth # 19 - Cissusa valens Clover Looper - Caenurgina crassiuscula Zale Moth - Zale lunata 1185 Bleptina caradrinalis -Bent-winged Owlet 8370 - Bleptina caradrinalis The Betrothed - Catocala innubens moth - Redectis vitrea Confirmed: Black Zale - Zale undularis - Zale undularis - Zale undularis
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
No Taxon (Moths)
Superfamily Noctuoidea
Family Erebidae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Formerly part of Noctuidae; includes the former noctuid subfamilies Calpinae, Catocalinae, Euteliinae, Herminiinae, Hypeninae, among others (see All-Leps).
BugGuide currently follows the classification shown at All-Leps (See discussion here). Jean-Francois Landry and Don Lafontaine of Agriculture Canada, and John Burns and Scott Miller of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History are curators of the list, with assistance from others named at the bottom of this page. The classification of moths is continuously under study, and further changes are inevitable.
One of seven North American families in the superfamily Noctuoidea (or eight families, if Pantheinae is given family status [Pantheidae], according to Kitching and Rawlins, 1999).
Print References
Kitching, I.J., and J.E. Rawlins. 1999. (The Noctuoidea, pp. 355-401 in Kristensen N.P. (editor). Lepidoptera: Moths and butterflies. Volume 1: Evolution, systematics and biogeography. Handbook of Zoology/Handbuch der Zoologie. Walter de Gruyter. Berlin/New York).
Internet References
classification of superfamily Noctuoidea, showing seven families (All-Leps)